Use binary diff tools like xdelta, bsdiff/bspatch to transfer large files

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What do you do if you have to frequently transfer large files over a slow connection as part of your work? Perhaps new builds produced by your corporate build server need to be deployed at a different location for the QA team? I have seen such scenarios causing huge amounts of wasted time for multiple [...]

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How to create a file of arbitrary size with fsutil in Windows XP

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This post is a sequel to – How to create a file of arbitrary size in Linux Few people have used the fsutil command in Windows. Here is how you can use it to create a file of any desired size – fsutil file create myFile.dat 10240 This will create a file of size 10KB [...]

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